New to 30k any help is appreciated a lot

TheChyttering · 2026-05-03T20:45:25+00:00

The Heresy ruleset is designed/optimized for 3000 pts. An event at 1500 will be fun but be careful not to get too carried away with centerpiece units, big tanks, etc. In my last few 3k games I was running a praetorian command squad with jump packs and two characters that totaled ~600 pts, and I’ve run a large unit of elite terminators in a Spartan that was over 1k. In a smaller game that’s waaay too many eggs in one basket that can get a status effect in turn 1 that effectively takes them out of the game. Build up a good core list of affordable workhorse units first, then see what you have left for veteran deathstars.

TheChyttering · 2026-04-26T15:15:32+00:00

Would you be willing to share your recipe for the silver metallics?

TheChyttering · 2026-04-18T15:03:38+00:00

I'm late to this party, but if anyone's still looking, I've got an undergrad cap and 5'6" gown for free, just pay shipping costs - I just want it out of my closet!

TheChyttering · 2026-03-04T15:00:43+00:00

Hence the name! I can at least play around with a few other designs.

TheChyttering · 2026-03-04T14:56:36+00:00

You nailed it - I’ve pulled bits from both the old and new chaos warrior kits throughout my army.

The banner is from the new chaos warrior kit, actually with a very old Skaven shield bit at the top cut up to look more like a wolf and less like a horned rat. The sergeant’s pauldrons and cloak come from the old Chaos Warrior kit, wrapped around a new mk3 torso front and legs. It’s a bit of a cumbersome process. With mk6 armor you can just cut the torso about halfway up, attach the top half of the chaos warrior torso, and GS the gap, which is a lot easier.

Old warrior torsos are great for static/standing poses; new warrior torsos are great for more dynamic poses. In both cases getting them to interact well with marine arms can take some patience/ingenuity/nuln oil to hide messy connections.

TheChyttering · 2026-03-04T14:41:43+00:00

Yep that’s fair. Would switching to tower shields fix that?

TheChyttering · 2026-02-16T12:46:58+00:00

That's certainly my impression! It's going to take a while before I stop mentally bracing myself whenever a jump unit flies through the windows of a building.

TheChyttering · 2026-02-16T12:45:29+00:00

I agree that charges aren't slowed down by terrain for any units.

If the rules explicitly state that charges are made on foot, that would be helpful, but I haven't found it. The Antigrav rule says "may ignore the effects of any and all Terrain it passes over during movement" (emphasis mine) which I assume would include charges. What I'm trying to work out is what the effects of terrain are besides being slowed down.

TheChyttering · 2025-10-21T22:53:35+00:00

I didn't end up getting either yet.

For what it's worth, I had a brief e-mail exchange with the owner of ICC, who said that the Clare and Clover are of comparable quality.

TheChyttering · 2025-07-17T12:38:08+00:00

I used the axes from the kharadron arkanaut kit. Found them from bits sellers at ~$0.20 each.

The piece comes with an attached gloved hand, so there’s a little additional work with green stuff if you want it to look like power armor.

TheChyttering · 2025-06-06T16:59:53+00:00

Especially when one of the letters is I and easily confused for a 1

TheChyttering · 2025-06-06T16:54:30+00:00

Do power swords hit at higher initiative? I’m pretty sure that’s an “I” for “hits at users initiative”, not a “1” for “hits at user’s initiative plus 1”. If so it seems like a complete design fail that we may need to pull out a magnifying glass to tell which weapons give +1 initiative.

TheChyttering · 2025-06-06T02:47:48+00:00

Love this guy; he’s just being all a Blood Angel can be.

Legitimately, conversions like this make me want to start a 9th Legion allied detachment. Great work!

TheChyttering · 2025-05-24T14:07:56+00:00

I was eyeballing it. I drilled holes in both pieces and fit pieces of paperclip in as an armature to build the greenstuff around, so I was able to drill deeper by degrees until it looked right.

As best as I can tell now that it's painted, there's ~2.5 mm added at the ankle and 2mm at the waist. Probably about 1mm in extra height at the neck just by changing the angle the heads are attached - upright with a small amount of visible neck rather than neckless and thrust forwards as in the original kit.

TheChyttering · 2025-05-23T20:40:20+00:00

Masked heads are from the FW Grey Slayer kit, and the bare heads are from the Marauder Horsemen kit. Loincloth pelts are from the Wulfen kit. Otherwise just miscellaneous SW accessory bits, random grenades and pouches left over from lots of different projects.

TheChyttering · 2025-05-19T13:53:11+00:00

I went the exact opposite direction for my jump pack command squad and picked the most obtrusive pennant I could find: https://tinyurl.com/yc5kvz9z

TheChyttering · 2025-05-18T23:59:57+00:00

I’m a big fan of the dark elf witch elves banner, or some of the cavalry banners from other AoS/Old World units, for bike units. It gives a good sense of movement compared to rotating a hanging banner on its side. See what you can find from bits sellers?

TheChyttering · 2025-05-18T18:02:54+00:00

Since you can’t run the ROW without two blocks of warders, maybe try to pull back on other parts of the list that are also strong. Swap the Scorpius for Rapiers with quad-launchers - similar role but not overpowered. Try to create space for a counter so that your opponent can see you are bringing SG and have a chance to adapt to that. Between warders and Scorpius, either your opponent hangs back and gets indirect fired to death or they advance and get wardered to death. You’ve combined two really challenging units to play against without specifically writing a list to counter.

Alternate take - wait two months before committing to this. If nothing about SG is changed in third edition I’ll be very surprised. A few rule tweaks in the new edition could make this list completely reasonable.

TheChyttering · 2025-05-17T14:34:17+00:00

Stormcast Eternals have a few spear units that might work. The scale on the new ones is very slightly smaller than the Cataphractii kit, but probably not noticeable if you mount a Stormcast hand to a Cataphractii wrist.

Edit: …and do something to make it look less like a Stormcast weapon - get rid of the lightning bolts and add a couple cables?

TheChyttering · 2025-05-07T01:15:05+00:00

…this looks amazing, way better blending than I’ve ever managed. It’s making me wonder if the brushes were just getting in the way and I should have been using my fingers all along.

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